Italian Sausages with Cheesy Polenta

Italian Sausages with Cheesy Polenta

An Italian sausage "ragu" served with cheesy polenta is a heart-warming dinner that is easy to prepare.

Ingredients

• 8 Italian sausage
• 200 g button mushrooms sliced
• 1 onion thinly sliced
• 1 red capsicum cut into strips thinly sliced
• 1 tsp capers
• 1 clove garlic crushed
• 400 g canned crushed tomatoes
• 40 g baby spinach
• 1/2 cup kalamata olives pitted
• 1/2 cup white wine
• 3 cup water
• 3 tsp chicken stock powder
• 3/4 cup instant polenta
• 15 g butter
• 1/2 cup tasty cheese grated
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese grated

Equipment

• frying pan with lid
• saucepan
• whisk

• Method

  • STEP 1Heat a large frypan over medium heat. Add in sausages to brown. Once sausages are brown, remove from pan.
  • STEP 2In same frypan, sauté onion, garlic, capsicum, capers and mushrooms for 5 minutes. Return sausages to pan. Increase heat to high and add in wine, stirring. Once wine has reduced, add in the tin of tomatoes, stirring to combine. Bring mixture to boil. Reduce heat, cover and let simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove the lid after 10 minutes of cooking to allow mixture to reduce for the final 10 minutes of cooking.
  • STEP 3While sausages are cooking prepare polenta.
  • STEP 4Bring water and chicken stock to boil In a large saucepan. Turn down heat to low. Once boiling pour in polenta, whisking constantly. Continue to stir until polenta has taken up all of the water (2-3 minutes). Remove from heat and stir in butter and two cheeses.
  • STEP 5Once sausage mixture has reduced, stir through olives and baby spinach.
  • STEP 6To serve place a spoonful of polenta, two sausages and some sauce on each plate.

  Notes

  This can be cooked with BBQ sausages, but we love the flavour that comes from using Italian sausages. The Italian sausages I use are purchased from our local butcher